Tootfinder

Come on #LinkedIn stay in your lane.
You had ONE job!
Remember when LinkedIN was #professional #networking, and not #minigames

Excited to have ordered my first length of fibre ever! When I started learning networking there was still Coax around and Fibre was a mythical beast!
Now I am going to start replacing the Cat5 in my house for the #homelab
woot!!
Ironically the first run of fibre is the one that has never had physical network cable before, outside. But you gotta start somewhere.
My only question is if Telus has an ONT/gateway box that has both SPF and Ethernet ports? 🤔 questions for another day. This is not a high priority project but nice to get started in earnest.
#homelab #networking #fibre #home #diy

I was hoping to get a new macmini to replace #newOldiMac before the summer but there are no refurbished ones in the Canadian Apple Store right now and the wait time on a new one is 12 weeks!
So no point doing that… plus the prices on RAM and SSD upgrades are crazy rn. Maybe the bubble will pop by then and we’ll have a flood of ex-AI gear on the market…
So instead I will focus my homelap on improving our home network situation, getting a couple 10gBT switches and capable router, and running a couple important cables around the house.
Then maybe I will see if I can make some space in our basement wiring closet for another shelf to hold a few old MacBook laptops that I have gathered over the years and see if I can turn them into a ProxMox cluster.
#networking #homelab #macmini #inflation

back into the trenches, literally. I'm continuing to get the trenching done for electrical, internet, and plumbing out to the shed.
If anyone sees this who has experience with home fiber networks I would be interested in their advice. Our home is mostly wired with CAT5 but there are increasingly heavy bandwidth loads over the past few years.
We have 10Gb fibre to the house from Telus. I would like to gradually add a few ports of fibre to key points but it is out of my day to day networking experience.
First question would be, can I bury fibre with the electrical?
suggestions welcome.
here are some pics. I have dug this trench before, almost 20 years ago.. when we first put solar and power to the old shed. 110 and 220V circuits.
different route this time arohnd the ponds, and also more connection points for both 220 solar and 110 home. Only want to do this once every 20 years at most, so now is the time to do it all. 😝
#poolpond #backyardProject #diy #networking #fibre #cat5 #gardening #home